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@@ -31,6 +31,14 @@ The GNU Source-Level Debugger''. *** Changes in GDB 5.3: +* GNU/Linux shared library multi-threaded performance improved. + +When debugging a multi-threaded application on GNU/Linux, GDB now uses +`/proc', in preference to `ptrace' for memory reads. This may result +in an improvement in the start-up time of multi-threaded, shared +library applications when run under GDB. One GDB user writes: ``loads +shared libs like mad''. + * ``gdbserver'' now supports multi-threaded applications on some targets Support for debugging multi-threaded applications which use |